Coyote Motel will make its Murfreesboro debut at the Hop Springs Beer Park Americana Sunday series on Sunday, Oct. 17, from 1 to 4 p.m.
Nashville-based guitarist, songwriter, singer, music journalist and producer Ted Drozdowski serves as frontman of Coyote Motel. Some in the area may know him from regular Mayday appearances with Scissormen in years past.
The band specializes in slow, swampy, reverb-soaked blues mixed with splashes of rock, country and psychedelia, and even gets into a little punk territory, a blend the band likes to call “cosmic roots music.”
“It’s not super-fancy,” Drozdowski said. “It’s honest. It’s real.”
Lyrically, the Coyote Motel material can quickly travel from silly fun to very serious topics of addiction, abuse, protest and death, as the band adds some spaciness to a Delta blues foundation.
“The influences of Muddy Waters and Daniel Lanois, or Lonnie Mack and Sonny Sharrock, not only can but should exist in the same song,” Drozdowski continued. “We’re also seriously committed to everybody—including ourselves—having fun!”
Experience the band’s sound, which has also been described as “mesmerizing hoodoo,” at Hop Springs on Oct. 17.
Hop Springs is at 6790 John Bragg Hwy., Murfreesboro. Find more on Coyote Motel and stream the band’s entire debut album at coyotemotel.com.
